Ex-ABN Amro CEO Killed Family Before Hanging Himself

Sadly, as suspected - and in line with his CFO in 2009 - the reported death of Jan Peter Schmittmann was indeed suicide. The ex-CEO of ABN Amro hanged himself, but only after murdering his wife, Nally, and 22 year-ol daughter Babette. As Bloomberg reports, a farewell letter was found in the house, but authorities declined further comment on its contents. Schmittmann’s family was cited as saying in the statement that “we knew Jan Peter struggled with severe depression," and added that their "first concern now is supporting the remaining daughter in coping with this indescribable grief." Aweful...

Schmittmann joined ABN Amro Holding NV, once among Europe’s biggest banks, in 1983 as an assistant relationship manager and was named head of the lender’s Dutch unit in 2003. As a member of the bank’s executive board, he was responsible for restructuring it along the lines agreed by Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, Fortis and Banco Santander SA in their three-way takeover of the lender in 2007.

A year after the biggest financial-services takeover in history, the credit crunch drove Fortis to the verge of collapse, forcing the Netherlands to take over its Dutch banking and insurance units, including assets of the former ABN Amro in 2008. The Dutch asked Gerrit Zalm to lead the company now called ABN Amro Group NV.

On the eve of the nationalization, Schmittmann was dismissed by the Dutch Finance Ministry, he told lawmakers in a 2011 hearing. He received an 8 million-euro ($11 million) severance payment, less than what he was entitled to under his contract and more than the Dutch government sought to pay.

On Saturday April 5 officers found three lifeless bodies in the house. It turned out to be the father, mother and the youngest daughter of family Schmittmann. The entire Saturday performed the Forensic Investigation research in and around the home. The first indications of the police pointed to a possible family drama. The eldest daughter of the family was not at home and is caught by her family.

Further investigation

To exclude other possible scenarios were, in addition to the search for clues in the home, research bodies carried out to establish the cause of death. Information was also gathered from family and friends of the family to get what had happened as possible a clear picture. Dutch Forensic Institute confirmed the suspicions that the police had. The mother and daughter are killed by the father, the father then committed suicide. The house is a suicide note found.

Are related to privacy and respect for the family, no further statements made about the time of death, the manner of death and the contents of the suicide note.

Explanation family Schmittmann

The family has stated: "We are deeply shocked and beaten by this unimaginable news. We knew that Jan Peter struggled with severe depression that would eventually lead to these events is still incomprehensible to us, our first concern... now supporting the other daughter of the family in the processing of this indescribable grief. We hope to be able to do. "in peace and seclusion"

Herr Dr Shitgum was found hanging by a thread, upside down in a dark closet locked from the outside with his hands tied behind his back in a black cloak, mask and matching thong trimmed in florescent red velvet. The accompanying typed note stapled to his forehead with a 3" nail signed "Robin" said he was "tired of being Bat-ted about." That he was unavailable for comment was found to be somewhat suspicious by police, but was ruled a suicide due to the lack of interest being it occurred on a Saturday a mere 17 weeks before August holidays.

Sure, makes total sense.....someone who is very depressed has the energy to kill not just is wife, but also his daughter. On top of that, he left a farewell notice because people who kill their wife & daughter give a shit about what other people may or may not be thinking. Then, after writing that all important farewell notice he hangs himself.

No, people that are that despondent tend to not have energy to kill their offspring, and if they do, they typically aren't thinking about a farewell notice because they are more than ready to leave this world.

I hate to be so conspiratorial, but more times than not when something in the world doesn't sound quite right it usually isn't.

A wild alternative idea.....the guy was getting ready to be whacked by those bank-whackers and the wife & daughter happened to see what was going on. The bank-whackers knew they needed to silence the wife & daughter also. So, they try to turn it into some bullshit story of the guy killing his family and then hanging himself......just a wild idea.

Yea your conspiracy thinking makes much more logical sense. Why would he kill his wife and child?? How were they murdered?? Surely not hanged?? So, you'd assume that he shot them and then, decided to kill himself but, then got a thought...."Hey, why shoot yourself (which is quick and painless) when you can hang yourself (which is slow, painful and needs logic and rope)"

But, before you hang yourself, write a note to the world and to that other daughter who, you wish was here so you could also kill. Then, look for a rope and hang yourself.

The public doesn't understand derivatives and for the most part has no idea how massive is the liability to big banks if things go South. This would assume that these guys know it's about to go South and that the overlords have been divesting themselves of the exposure, and that these lower level guys planned not to take the fall when the public gets the unpayable bill.

It's all manipulated so we would not necessarily see it coming. If you're head of risk and you see a disaster unfolding that was not of your making and you knew you were going to take the fall, you may think about pulling back the curtain before it happens and say "I wasn't pulling the levers on this shit." That may cause you to take a fall.

No apparent connection, I agree. Your guess is as good as mine on whether they will kill off the witnesses in sufficient time to prevent us knowing the root of all of this and/or convince the remaining living ones to keep their mouths shut.

"THE BANK" wants to end re-hypothecation and is making Central Bank Branches accountable for misplaced Gold. Markers are being called in because China and Russia are in competition and accumulating both gold and energy assets.

Just over a year later, still nothing about David Rossi. Monte Dei Paschi Bank had been under derivatives investigation. Complete media blackout. Gabriel Magee.....media blackout. Two "apparent" suicides that are patently suspicious. Whitewashed lies all around.

Or cover-up with staged Murder-Suicide. Seems rather strange that he didn't kill his other daughter that lived only a short distance away, but left a detailed farewell letter. Also note the same Bank's CFO off'd himself back in 2009, also blamed on "depression"

He was so determined to kill himself, when his wife and daughter found him trying to hang himself and they tried to stop him, he had to kill them so he could continue killing himself. The other daughter didn't enter into the equation. That's what depression will do. Fucks you up.

The hit man who came Into the house to murder him because he knew too much had nothing to do with this. He just stood by and let nature take it's course.

LTER, I thought about this very thing. The man was depressed, maybe the wife too. The daughter was handicapped and they might have felt she was a burden. Would be interesting to know how wife and daughter died.

When SHTF due to GFC in 2008, his bank went bust. He got a package worth 8 million Euros. Alot of money to most people but not in these high banking circles. The money eventually ran out, no chance of getting more pieces of the action. Their lifestyle probably suffered. Again, most people can deal with this but when you're very rich and you have to downsize considerably, all cards are on the table including an early termination to one's life. Nevermind the stress of having to live with the guilt and the notion that people were hurting while he got paid off.

Suicide and "assisted suicide" (i.e. wilful murder under a medical fig leaf) are becoming quite culturally acceptable in the Netherlands. Positive law has a tutelary value. When you make it legal to do something, people think its okay to do it. That might be enough to push an unstable man over the edge, and it's one reason why such things should never be made legal.

Absolutely! Problem #1 with this story is that depressed people are NOT homicidal in 99% of all clinical cases. The remaining 1% has deep personality disorders that would render them unfit to raise a family, or become a CEO.

How he rose to head one of the largest banks in Europe while everyone knew he suffered from severe depression. I'd start there. Maybe it only set in AFTER the wheels came off, but generally these Type-A personalities who run big banks don't curl up in a ball on the floor when they get smacked down. Did he/they know, even if only intuitively, the last shoe has yet to drop in the now 5-year-old "financial crisis", is the question I can't let go of.

A feeling of futility is the hallmark of depression. And if you knew the storm wasn't anywhere near over yet, that would seem to qualify.

How much you want to wager he was taking Dr. Prescribed crazy pills. God forbid is we ever get a depressed president on Paxil fingering the nuke codes and playing on the red phone at night. "FUCK YOU VLAD YOU GOD DAMN BULLY, TAKE THIS"

A Big W T F? Jan Peter, God Rest His Soul.....depression after an 11 Million Dollar Parachute. Poor Little Jan Peter. Fucking Asshole. I'm still not buying the murder suicide. I'd be checking out the surviving daughter....probbly be watching it in 20 years on an episode of Cold Case. And BooBoo, you're probably right about the meds...probably Ambien...however, there is one other possibility here besides banking. If I had a hairdo like his, I'd either get to the Hairclub for Men or kill myself.

As I have been married three times and exposed to numerous children of the nature that murder might seem compassionate, you may be suffering from a personal bias. A crazy fucking wife and like minded 20 year old could push many a mortal to heinous acts.

Law enforcement isn't really looking for another explanation. 1. He was ordered to jump off a building 2. When he didn't they came killed his family in front of him 3. Hung him. The guy was due to leave on a vacation with his Family to india, his daughter discovered the bodies when she came by the house to travel with them. Really how many people with a $11 Million departure package kill themselves from depression prior to a vacation with family ? 0

You'd have to know his current business (he was on many boards and still active...quite odd for someone capable of such an act) to understand that...and I imagine the particular nature of that is a State Secret as well.

Outside of Russia the Netherlands has Europe's largest and most proximate gas field. How that asset is "levered" (Phillips NV? Royal Dutch billions disappeared?) can make every corner in the stream "the place where the car is parked."

No witnesses to these things ever. No motive. And...of course..."case closed" within a day.

Could involve "people of Title." They don't call that thing "the RiksBank" for nothin'. Of course you'd need an expert on European "relationship and association provisions." I know I'm not one...probably shouldn't even be commenting.

Someone else pointed out...why shoot two, then switch from a gun to a rope?

A hitman (team) wouldn't, and neither would the suicidee.

I suggest the 'suicide' was already in some stage of completion, when wife and daughter stumble into it. They must now be dealt with, and you surely can't hang them too, and keep the 'suicide/murder' narrative, and you can't even grab them and restrain them, cuz forensics will tell on you, so 'pop-pop', down they go.

He was not only bound for a vacation with his family to India, he also had just returned from a skiing holiday!

If you have no personal financial worries, have a proper social life in your community, a lovely wife and two lovely daughters, why take your spouse and one daughter with you?

A friend of mine, more or less the same setting: lovely wife, beautiful children, MD, no financial difficulties, respected in local community, same age group, university. He recently hang himself. Very traumatic. At least he didn't took his wife and child(ren) with him. Main difference: he was a docter, not a bankster. Banksters are made to do such a thing.

Yeah, family murder-suicides usually seem to be along the lines of 'angry, troubled husband kills kids to fuck ex-wife over, then kills ex, then kills himself', or 'suicidal, delusional mother, overmedicated on antidepressants and god-knows what other pharmaceuticals, has temporary insanity moment, kills kids, then comes out of the drug-induced delusion, sees what she did and kills herself.

I don't recall a 'late middle-age executive kills adult daughter and wife with firearm, then hangs self' storyline ever playing out. Seems suspicious, especially in light of how accident-prone bankers have become lately. Soon they'll move ahead of roofers and fisherman as the most dangerous profession.

Hundreds of trillions (notional) in derivatives exposure (of which $250T is held in just 4 US banks...you know the ones). A small screw up by JPM cost them one of their NY bldgs at firesale prices just to call off the Chinese dogs. ABN screw over the Russians or someone else who plays for keeps? Banksters think they're bullet proof (no pun intended), which is true....until it isn't.

I get the depression part. There are dark forces in some people's heads that they can't live with. But the wife and daughter? You lost me there, Schmittmann. Any chance of knowing what type of 'script drugs were involved? No?

One needs to have morals and a conscience first before experiencing any remorse for their actions. Beyond those, it's usually self-pity because they're about to experience an actual consequence of their actions like prison or loss of power. You know, much like politicians once they're caught redhanded.

shermacman: "I get the depression part. There are dark forces in some people's heads that they can't live with. But the wife anddaughter? You lost me there, Schmittmann. Any chance of knowing what type of 'script drugs were involved? No? "

Ya never know, the little douchenozzle would probably get sent to some shitbag Ivy leage college and land a job as jr bankster.

Vince Foster also was reported to be in severe depression as well. Not so depressed that he couldn't travel to Geneva, Switzerland many many times, on behalf of the Clintons for some reason, and not so depressed that he was not able to refuse to sign the blind trust document the Clintons were required to file - you know, the blind trust document that showed up, signed by him, after his death.

Cliinton also loved a guy called Marc Rich for his money...no innuendo intended; he just gave him a huge tax break before handing the WH keys to Dubya and let him come back to homeland from his Swiss hanky panky scam-bang operation which later became commodity giant Glencore.

If I was an inside guy like this, once the puppet masters threaten me, I'd schedule a meeting with them to "work on the issue" and swallow a brick of c4 with a remote detonator to use during the meeting.

Another strange thing: The daughter who didnt get killed supposedly found the bodies according to 1 newspaper, another newspaper reports she was informed later as to what happened.

I checked several papers here in the Netherlands, nowhere is there anything mentioned that Schmittmann hanged himself...the police are not giving details as to the cause of death due to "privacy reasons".